On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:47:50PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
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> On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 13:40 +0200, Hans J. Koch wrote:
> >=20
> > I avoided the German umlaut in my name by using the abbreviation "Hans
> > J. Koch" on mailing lists. Unfortunately, I still have one mail client
> > that uses the full name. I'll fix that to avoid similar trouble.
> >=20
> > On the other hand, I used that for quite a while now, and didn't have
> > problems. It shouldn't be too difficult to have these programs use
> > UTF-8 (or any other charset) properly these days.
>=20
> I'm not convinced it's a problem with rfc2047 handling; I think it's
> simpler brain-damage than that on mailman's part. It's to do with line
> wrapping, iirc -- if an address spans two lines, like: David Woodhouse
>  <dwmw2@infradead.org>, then mailman will brokenly insert a comma where
> the line break happened -- or something like that.

It's a bit more complicated cause Mailman gets this right:

  ARM Linux Mailing List=20
  <linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk>,

It also gets RFC2407 right:

  =3D?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ville_Syrj=3DE4l=3DE4?=3D <syrjala@sci.fi>

I guess it's a combination that goes wrong:

  =3D?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans-J=3DFCrgen_?=3D =3D?ISO-8859-1?Q?Koch?=3D=20
  <hjk@linutronix.de>

Maybe if J=FCrgen's mailer made that something like:

 =3D?ISO-8859-1Q!Hans-J=3DFCrgen_Koch?=3D

Mailman wouldn't have crippled the address?

Oh well, rmk isn't available for a few days so I can't really debug the
Mailman version on lists.arm.linux.org.uk :(


Erik

--=20
Erik Mouw -- mouw@nl.linux.org